The most important news for Monday, March 8th, 2010....
The death toll from weekend violence in central Nigeria climbed to more than 200 on Monday after members of a radical, machete-wielding Islamic terror group attacked a mostly Christian town south of the city of Jos.
A 5.9-magnitude earthquake collapsed homes and killed more than 50 people in a mountainous region of southeastern Turkey early on Monday.
A strong earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale hit the western coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Friday night.
If the charts are to be believed, the New Madrid fault zone in the central United States is primed for a massive earthquake event.
It is being reported that Iran is developing a massive new rocket launch site with North Korean assistance.
Israeli National Infrastructures Minister Uzi Landau is expected to announce plans for the very first nuclear power plant in Israel.
North Korea has put its army on full combat alert and says it is ready to "blow up" South Korea as joint drills between the South and the United States got underway.
The Russian military on Thursday successfully tested a strategic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads from a submarine in the Arctic. Could missiles such as that one day be a threat to the United States?
A new bill would allow the U.S. government to arrest U.S. citizens and detain them without trial indefinitely based on "suspect activity".
Recent comments by Chinese central bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan seem to indicate that China may soon be ready to sever the yuan's de-facto peg to the U.S. dollar.
A new poll has found that nine percent of U.S. adults have already moved their money out of the big banks to protest the Wall Street bailouts and government favoritism towards the big financial institutions.
With a 21% cut in Medicare payments slated to take effect later this month, will some doctors now be forced to boycott Medicare patients?
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may force lenders to buy back $21 billion of home loans this year as part of a crackdown on faulty mortgages.
Cash-strapped states such as North Carolina, Alabama and Hawaii have been forced to slow down issuing income tax refunds to individuals and businesses because they simply don't have enough money.
From all indications, there is a whole lot of bank balance sheet fraud going on out there right now.
The son of one of the founders of Hamas who spied for Israel for many years is now publicly talking about his conversion to Christianity and about how dangerous radical Islam is.
Barack Obama has tapped a former Army general to lead the Transportation Security Administration.
A delegation of Pakistani lawmakers recently cut short their visit to the U.S. after refusing to subject themselves to a controversial full-body scan at a Washington D.C. airport.
Are corrupt Afghans literally stealing millions of dollars from aid funds?
In the U.K., hundreds more town hall staff and private security guards are to be handed police-style powers in a fresh Home Office drive to create an army of "civilian spies".
Urgent warnings are circulating throughout NATO and the European Union for secret intelligence material to be protected from a recent surge in cyberwar attacks originating in China.
Social workers in the U.K. have placed the five-year-old daughter of a professional couple on the child protection register for "emotional abuse" after the mother told the girl she was delivered by C-section.
Banks with more than 100 billion in assets will be overseen by the U.S. Federal Reserve under a regulatory reform plan that represents a partial victory for the central bank.
Is Rahm Emanuel in trouble? Even some Democrats are now calling on him to resign.
Big change - starting next year, any bank or other payment settlement company that processes credit cards, debit cards or electronic payments such as PayPal will have to issue information returns telling the IRS what merchants receive.
One Tea Party voter has put new Massachusetts Senator on notice.
Is Sarah Palin trying to pitch a reality television show?
Looking for something amazing to add to your diet? It turns out that cucumbers are one of the most versatile vegetables that you can grow in your garden.
According to new research, the virus that causes AIDS can hide in the bone marrow, avoiding drugs and later awakening to cause illness.
A Catholic school in Boulder, Colorado is under fire due to the fact that it has refused to readmit a preschooler because the child has two moms.
Approximately 100 traditionalist Anglican parishes across the United States have decided to convert en masse to the Roman Catholic Church.
One man in Tyler, Texas was recently given 35 years in prison for having 4.6 ounces of marijuana.
Lastly, one Democrat Congressman recently described a confrontation with Rahm Emanuel that took place in a very uncomfortable setting: "I am showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes RahmEmanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me."
